[opendtv] Re: Ajit Pai thanks Congress for helping him kill net neutrality rules
- From: "Manfredi (US), Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2019 19:30:04 +0000
John Shutt wrote:
And that telecom neutrality is still in place, is it not?
So, you're saying, we will trust that these local monopolies maintain strict
neutrality of service, EVEN THOUGH this one FCC Chairman does NOT think they
need to be or should be neutral, and EVEN THOUGH, in the recent past, these
local monopolies blocked and degraded certain services. I already quoted the
reason why Comcast blocked BitTorrent, as one early example of non-neutral
broadband service. Their lawyers simply said, we are not a common carrier,
therefore, we can block whatever we please. And to you, that's acceptable, from
a telecom service. (And please, don't give me the lame excuse that BitTorrent
was being misused. Comcast was hardly being the benevolent cop on the beat. Let
the courts decide when people are committing illegal acts.)
Why do you continue to treat the specific "Net Neutrality" rules
implemented by the Wheeler FCC in 2015,
Even *Republican* Congressmen wrote to this crooked Chairman, to retain the
neutrality guarantee while they re-wrote the law. I posted the article some
time ago. Ditto with the Washington State House and Senate. Republicans and
Democrats overwhelmingly voted to retain the neutrality guarantee. We've been
over this already, John. And I've never insisted that the guarantee must be via
Title II.
approved on a strict party line vote,
Everyone was in favor, John. The very vast majority of the public (which is all
that really matters), the very vast majority of businesses (many even wrote to
the stubborn crook), the courts, even Congress. You did not see any big
pushback in 2015, except only by crooks on the take, and naturally, a handful
of special interests. The yahoos on the take were saying there would be an
endless series of court cases. There were not. The only whining was from those
who could accept kickbacks for doing special favors to businesses or their
choosing. There is no universe in which non-neutral telecom service is
beneficial, John.
The result? The internet today is regulated in exactly the manner
that it was regulated in 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, etc.
Nope. I've been over this many times. In the first two decades, Internet
service was provided entirely over Title II telephone lines. For both the long
haul and the last mile. This resulted in people having access to dozens of
ISPs. Those ISPs that wanted to wall up the Internet, like AOL, lost out big
time, only because there was ample competition for ISP service, thanks only to
Title II. For technical reasons, that state of affairs changed, with broadband.
Now, ISP service comes from a local monopoly. Even my daughter, who lives in
Connecticut close to the NY border and to NYC, i.e. hardly out in the boonies,
has exactly ONE choice for fixed broadband service. Without a guarantee of
neutrality, there's nothing preventing that ISP from misbehaving. And we have
seen enough times, they cannot control themselves.
As I said, I have high hopes that this Congress, whatever its negative aspects
might be, will at least override this one corrupt public official. And frankly,
I can't believe you would give any credibility at all, to an FCC Chairman who
doesn't know the difference between a telecom service and the users of the
service. That kind of profound ignorance does not need to be tolerated, by the
American taxpayer.
Bert
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